WARNING: This news contains spoilers. Joker: Folie à Deux.
Joker: Folie à Deux It’s already hit theaters and hasn’t been received as well as Warner Bros. expected. New film about Todd Phillips And Joaquin Phoenix he was faced with the task of repeating the success of the first part, released in 2019 and receiving the Golden Lion in Venice. However, despite widespread acclaim, it met with strong resistance from both critics and the public. And one of the most notable elements is the controversial ending.
In the last scene Arthur He meets a young Arkham inmate who tells him a joke. It ends with a phrase, the same one that the main character said. Murray Franklin before casting him in the first film. So the unknown boy starts stabbing the character phoenix until he killed him. As he bleeds in the background Joker: Folie à Deux shows the killer practicing the Glasgow smile. As a result, two deep cuts appeared in the corner of the mouth, running up the cheeks. That is the same smile that joker from Heath Ledger.
Now a report from Hollywood Reporter discovered that it’s actually a wink Joker: Folie à Deux To Dark Knight was going to appear in the first film. In when Arthur He gets out of the wrecked car and draws a clown smile in front of his followers with blood, in fact, he was going to make Glasgow smile. But it didn’t make me happy at all Christopher Nolanwhich was still at Warner Bros. in 2019. For this reason, the Oscar-winning director applied pressure to eliminate him.
According to Nolanonly joker from leader I had to wear this look. Also give this away Arthur This would mean taking away one of the late actor’s most distinctive character traits. But now, in 2024, the director Oppenheimer is no longer part of Warner Bros., so the company gave the go-ahead for a new ending Joker: Folie à Deux with this mysterious Arkham resident. A result that caused much controversy.
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Last scene outline and reference to the film. Nolan therefore in chapter Todd Phillips from the moment of first delivery. In fact, Warner Bros. executives defended him. “He always trusted his instincts and it took him quite far. He thought people would get the joke,” says a source close to Phillips in the studio.
Be that as it may, the truth is that the film did not convince the audience, and the box office did not support it either. Something that worries Warner greatly as he now has all the pressure of DC on him. supermanfrom James Gunn. They don’t belong to the same cinematic universe, but Joker: Folie à Deux This is another failure in their comic book movie section.
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